The petition
PETITION TO THE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMISSION (CPUC)
Re: Distribution of S02 Allowance Sale Proceeds Related to Suspended Operation of Mohave Generating Station, Application 06-12-022
We the undersigned customers of Southern California Edison (Edison) hereby petition CPUCto:
1. Recognize that the Hopi and Navajo tribes from 1970 to 2005 were consistently under-compensated for thousands of tons of coal and over 45 billion gallons of precious aquifer water to power the Mohave Generating Station (Mohave) to provide Southern California with lower cost electricity.
2. Recommend fair and just monetary compensation to the Hopi and Dine (Navajo) people in return for loss of natural resources as well as the loss of many jobs and millions per year in lost tribal royalty revenue resulting from the closure of Mohave Generating Station.
Such compensation should be drawn from the proposed sale of Edison's share of Sulfur Dioxide allowances credited to owners of Mohave for cutting 40,000 tons of toxic gas produced by Mohave prior to its closure in 2005.
3. Support a proposal by CAlifornians for Renewable Energy, Inc. (CARE) to use some of the sale proceeds to establish a permanent community trust fund for Hopi and Navajo communities on Black Mesa, to support the continuing work of Black Mesa Trust safeguarding the lands and waters of Black Mesa while carrying messages of water to the world, and to establish the world's largest solar power plant capable of generating 1000 megawatt of electricity, of which Southern Californians we be the beneficiaries.
The plant will be built on tribal land and will be owned and operated by an electric cooperative composed of Hopi and Navajo grassroots people. It will generate 300 permanent jobs, construction jobs and generate an annual income of over $7 million.
4. Continue to support the decision made on 6/20/06 to permanently close Mohave Generating Station that for forty years exploited Hopi/Navajo natural resources while spewing high levels of destructive atmospheric pollution, causing global warming.
Edison officials have stated that the S02 credit is an asset belonging to it's rate payers and we are the rate payers supporting CARE's proposal.
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